TY - BOOK ID - 78339231 TI - Around 1945 PY - 2016 SN - 0773599029 9780773599024 9780773599031 0773599037 9780773547322 0773547320 9780773547315 0773547312 PB - Montreal Kingston London Chicago DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - Literature and society KW - Citizenship in literature. KW - Human rights in literature. KW - Law in literature. KW - Roman anglais KW - Littérature et sociét KW - Citoyenneté dans la littérature KW - Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans la littérature KW - Droit dans la littérature KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire KW - Human rights in literature KW - Duty in literature. KW - Citizenship in literature KW - Law in literature KW - Duty in literature KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78339231 AB - Near the end of the Second World War, new ideas about citizenship, national identity, belonging, and rights emerged as the atrocities of the war - coupled with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - spurred writers and citizens around the world to think about their responsibilities to their fellow man.Covering British authors and contemporary fiction by migrant writers publishing at mid-century, as well as some photography from the era, Around 1945 is a collection of essays that reveals how literary texts and cultural events modeled human rights issues such as dignity, freedom, sovereignty, and responsibility. Unified by an investigation of the human and cultural aspects of universal rights, these essays show that British writers tested the parameters of citizenship and rights in novelistic form. By imagining duties and rights of citizens in hypothetical contexts, these novels expanded on the legislated entitlements and obligations that make up civic and human identity. To this day the repercussions of 1945 continue to unfold in stories about statehood, refugees, humanitarianism, displacement, and national belonging. At the same time, novels continue to imagine the human person, equal in rights and dignity before the law, yet often compromised by the political exigencies of nation-states that do not recognize legal, political, or human rights.Tracing the rippling consequences of the Second World War from 1945 through the Cold War and into the present, Around 1945 is an extraordinarily rich volume that will alter our perception of pre- and post-war British literature. ER -